Friday, May 13, 2011

Google Photos Show Midwest Flooding at Caruthersville, Missouri

Flooded farmland near New Madrid, Missouri, taken last weekend after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers detonated the Birds Point Levee.

We've got more astonishing photos of Mississippi River flooding to share this morning, thanks to the nice people over at Google.

This latest set shows just how wide the river has spread in the area of Caruthersville, Missouri -- the county seat of Pemiscot County in the Missouri Bootheel near the Arkansas border. Pemiscot, for the record, comes from an Indian word meaning "liquid mud," but these days, thanks to heavy rains and the detonated Birds Point levee just upriver, Caruthersville residents are probably wishing for a lot less liquidity.